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the others,
(2)
all soft like a big cat. I have only gotten to like boys who
are rather sissies. Are you a sissy? There were some some-
where.
Excuse all this, it is the third letter I have written you and
will send immediately or will never send. I’ve thought a lot
about moonlight too, and there are many witnesses I could
find if I could only be out of here.
(3)
They said you were a doctor, but so long as you are a cat it
is different. My head aches so, so excuse this walking there
like an ordinary with a white cat will explain, I think. I can
speak three languages, four with English, and am sure I
could be useful interpreting if you arrange such thing in
France I’m sure I could control everything with the belts all
bound around everybody like it was Wednesday. It is now
Saturday and
(4)
you are far away, perhaps killed.
Come back to me some day, for I will be here always
on this green hill. Unless they will let me write my father,
whom I loved dearly. Excuse this. I am not myself today. I
will write when I feel better.
Cherio
NICOLE WARREN.
Excuse all this.
CAPTAIN DIVER:
I know introspection is not good for a highly nervous

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